It's better to lose some of battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you're fighting for.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.

God hides the fires of hell within paradise.

Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.

In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

The spiritual path can only be traveled through the daily experience of love.

Love can only be found through the act of loving.

If I must fall, may it be from a high place.

Fortunate are those who take the first steps.

That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.

The moonlight caught the glint of his lip ring, which he was now fondling with the tip of his tongue as he stared down at me. It was a bit awkward.

Forgive the past to welcome the future.

You can't eat books, sweetheart.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves the moral character of another person.

On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.

I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.

I read each evening, at night and whenever possible during the day when I am traveling. I have always read.

As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.